aubes
\ob\
The verdict
“aubes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,787) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,787
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aube.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aubes · aubes · French
aubes · rank #43,787 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,787
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aubenas
Nearest frequency peer: Aubenas (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « aubes »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- assumera
assumera
56,218 corpus weight
- attribuables
attribuables
56,216 corpus weight
- Aubenas
Aubenas
56,215 corpus weight
- aubes
aubes
56,214 corpus weight
- audiovisuel…
audiovisuelles
56,213 corpus weight
- augmenta
augmenta
56,212 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aubes » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aubes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ob\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aubes »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aubes is neighbouring look-alikes ("aus", "Aude", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ob\. Frequency #43,787 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de aube.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aubes, with forms such as "aubbes", "aubess", and "auebs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aus", "Aude", "aune", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aubes, spelled A-U-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aube.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aubbes
- aubess
- auebs
- uabes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aubes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).